General Surgery

Improve Your General Surgery Coding With Specific Audio Conferences!

With new codes and an updated introduction, CPT® 2012 has you renovating your skin replacement coding skills, once again. First, learn how size matters with new codes 15271-+15278 (Application of skin substitute graft …). Next, you’ll need to make sure you also understand the updated CPT® instruction for skin replacement surgery. Follow this large-tumor-excision repair example to master five tools to ensure accurate, complete claims.

Having expert advice about the hottest general surgery topics like this means you can boost your coding accuracy, decrease denials, and safeguard your payments. That’s why you should keep yourself current with General Surgery audio conferences.
 

You’ll find such conference topics as:

  • General Surgery Update: Skip Selective Catheter Placement with Vessel Repair – You need need to use caution when billing certain vascular injection and blood vessel repair codes together. Find out about other changes that general surgery coders need to know.
  • Pressure Ulcer: 1104X or 159XX: 4 Tips Focus Decubitus Ulcer – With over 25 CPT® codes and nine ICD-9 codes to describe your surgeon’s pressure-ulcer patient encounter, you could use a few hints to make sure you capture all the pay you deserve. Follow our four expert guidelines to make sure you choose the right codes -- every time.
  • Prepare for General Surgery ICD-10 Codes – When your diagnosis system changes, you will have to alter how you report your top general surgery diagnoses. For instance, you will have to look for two melanoma families in ICD-10.
  • And more!
Bottom line: You don't have time to weed through the never-ending onslaught of information about general surgery coding and coverage, so let us do it for you. Check out these other benefits:
  • Answer your toughest general surgery questions by listening to expert advice.
  • Keep your denials at bay through these real world examples..
  • AAPC & AHIMA CEUs: You can earn CEUs every year for FREE by registering for coding/billing/compliance topics.
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Pre-recorded Conferences
S.No. Date Topic Name Speaker Name Action
1 03 Apr,2013 Auditing Surgical Operative Reports Dreama Sloan-Kelly, MD, CCS Read More
2 03 Apr,2013 Coding for General Surgery Lynn Pegram, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CGSC Read More
3 27 Mar,2013 The Basics of National Correct Coding Initiatives (NCCI) Steve Verno, CMBSI, CMSCS, CEMCS, CPM-MCS Read More
4 27 Feb,2013 The Basics for Coding Vascular Procedures Lynn Pegram, CPC, CPC-I, CEMC, CGSC Read More
5 20 Feb,2013 Coding and Documentation for Minor Procedures in the Primary Care Setting Kim Garner-Huey, MJ, CPC, CCS-P, CHCC, PCS, CHAP Read More
6 23 Jan,2013 Modifiers Made Easy for General Surgery Dreama Sloan-Kelly, MD, CCS Read More
7 19 Dec,2012 2013 General Surgery CPT Updates Kathleen A. Mueller, RN, CPC, CCS-P, CMSCS, CCC, PCS Read More
8 15 Nov,2012 Ethical Billing & Coding- Best Practices Elin Baklid-Kunz, MBA, CPC, CCS Read More
9 13 Nov,2012 Male Infertility: The Coding Skills You Need To Get Correct Payments Michael A. Ferragamo, Jr., MD, FACS Read More
10 08 Nov,2012 Case Studies in Hand Trauma Lynn Anderanin, CPC, CPC-I, COSC Read More
11 07 Nov,2012 Coding and Billing for Mid-Level Providers Barbara J. Cobuzzi, MBA, CPC, CPC-H, CPC-I, CENTC Read More
12 30 Oct,2012 HIPAA Security Rule Compliance: More Important Than Ever Jim Sheldon-Dean Read More
13 26 Sep,2012 General Surgery Coding and Reporting, "not so general" -- Mastering the details Quita W. Edwards, RT (R), CPC, COSC, CPC-I, CPMA Read More
14 06 Sep,2012 "Computer-Assisted Coding, ICD-10 and the Changing Role of the Medical Coder" Leo Schafer BS, MCSE Read More
15 22 Aug,2012 How to Work as a Contract Coder Sue Butler, CPC, CIMC Read More